ANTH105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gordon Willey, Mound Builders, Environmental Archaeology
1 Apr 2016
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Archaeologist excavated a modest house (ordinary house for ordinary people) One body bracing the child, and the top person is protecting them. Femur is cracked but need to do more research. Can tell if the child is related to the lady but not always the man. Dna tests can work out these relationships. The study of the human past through the identification, collection analysis, and interpretation of surviving material and physical evidence of human actions and behaviors. Humanistic subject: study of human beings in the past: historical . Archaeology as the past tense of cultural anthropology . Archaeology is anthropology or it is nothing (willey and phillips 1958) Scientific mindset: observation, data, hypotheses, testing, disproof. Introverted subject? always questioning philosophy and purpose. Reverence for, and restoration of, the past in ancient egypt, babylon, china, central. Enlightenment curiosity and nationalism in northern europe: antiquaries explore and document the prehistoric past: britain, scandinavia, germany,france.
